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Montenegrin Serbs ( - Crnogorski Srbi, or Црногорци - Crnogorci, literal meaning 'Montenegrins', meaning "people of Montenegro") is a regional, ethnographic group of ethnic Serbs. They compose the second largest nation in Montenegro (31.99%, 2003) after the nation of Montenegrins.
In the 8th century, the Serbian Principality was established, which had most of present-day northern Montenegro, while the western part was in the Serbian crownland of Travunia in the 9th century (see Old Herzegovina). In the 11th century the Serbian realm was conquered by the Byzantines, and in its place the Županate of Duklja was formed in the southernmost part. The Serbs remained the majority of the people until the 1948 census which saw the formation of the "Montenegrin ethnicity".
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